Just Like Grandma Used to Make
Item #: SCP-XXXX
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-XXXX is to be kept in a high security safe-class containment vault. Personnel access to SCP-XXXX requires the unanimous approval of three level 4 researchers assigned to its wing. Testing on SCP-XXXX has been suspended indefinitely (by order of the director of Site-19.)
Description: SCP-XXXX is a ceramic pie baking plate. On the inside of the plate is writing describing the pie plate company, "Happy Homes Pies", as well as a non-anomalous recipe for 'home baked american apple pie.' Below the recipe is a closing phrase, which has been identified as a mild memetic agent. Because of this, a anti-meme has been developed and attached to the phrase to suppress its effects. If viewing the meme below, please read the bolded text with intent.
"Just like grandma used to make." MAY GOD REST HER SOUL
Reading the memetic phrase will induce a anomalous reaction in the reader to repeat said meme after eating or observing any meals, pies, or pastries. The attached anti-meme has been shown to have a 85% success rate in reducing the use of the meme. Repeating this meme while not viewing SCP-XXXX is non-anomalous.
SCP-XXXX manifests its primary anomalous properties when ingredients(SCP-XXXX-1) are placed inside it. These ingredients need not be cooked, baked, or processed in any way for SCP-XXXX's anomalous properties to activate. If a person observes SCP-XXXX while it contains SCP-XXXX-1 and says the memetic phrase listed above, reality will be changed such that their grandmother, (designated hereafter as SCP-XXXX-2,) has always cooked that recipe. Because of this, SCP-XXXX has been designated as a non-sapient, closed-loop-narrative reality bender.
Further testing has revealed that in subjects with more than one living grandmother, this anomalous change only affects the one they spent more time with, thought of, or primarily, 'the one that loved them more.' Changes to reality in affected subjects may range from minor detail changes, to complete restoration of SCP-XXXX-2 and acquisition of years of corresponding memories. These changes to reality only extend to those with specific knowledge of SCP-XXXX-2. Reality will not be altered for those who have simply heard anecdotes of SCP-XXXX-2, but more intimate information may be changed.
REMINDER: TESTING OF SCP-XXXX HAS BEEN PERMANENTLY SUSPENDED
Some archived test logs have been omitted for brevity, and are available from the Site-19 test archives by request.
The following are test logs for SCP-XXXX.
Please note that extraneous, inconclusive, or useless tests have been redacted.
Sample Test Log Format
Test Subject:
Grandmothers Status: Fathers Side: Mothers Side:
Pre-Test Interview:
Ingredients:
Post-Test Interview:
Post-Test Notes:
Personal Notes: (Please Label)
Test XXXX-Alpha-01
Test Subject: D-574623 Caucasian Male, 32
Grandmothers Status: Fathers Side: Deceased. Mothers Side: Alive, 87.
Pre-Test Interview: Subject describes SCP-XXXX-2 fondly, and had frequently visited her as a child. Subject does not recount any special occasions where SCP-XXXX-2 cooked for the family.
Ingredients: Recipe for 'home baked american apple pie', as listed on SCP-XXXX, baked to specification.
Post-Test Interview: Subject seems in very good spirits and is permitted to consume piece of SCP-XXXX-1, which he describes as 'heavily', and 'delicious'. SCP-XXXX is not present during the interview. In interview D-574623 recounts how SCP-XXXX-2 used to cook for them every fall and winter, making her special apple pie for Thanksgiving and Christmas. Subject also reported that this tradition continued every year until he was incarcerated.
Post-Test Notes: In every pre D-Class test on SCP-XXXX, it has been determined that SCP-XXXX-1 is non anomalous. Further tests are still being done to determine if SCP-XXXX-1 is anomalous under other conditions.
Personal Notes: None.
Test XXXX-Alpha-03
Test Subject(s): D-888765 Caucasian Female, 24. [Name Redacted] POI-XXXX-6, twin of D-888765 Caucasian Female, 24. (Brought in for questioning pre and post SCP-XXXX testing.)
Grandmothers Status: Fathers side: Deceased, 83 at time of death. (Test subjects were 14 at time of death.) Mothers side: Deceased. (Dead before birth of test subjects.)
Pre-Test Interview: D-888765 expressed happy memories of SCP-XXXX-2, and affirmed that she never attended family gatherings, and never cooked in the presence of the children. Foundation research confirms a distance of ███km between SCP-XXXX-2's home and the test subjects home when they were younger.
Ingredients: Standard recipe for lemon meringue pie. Baked.
Post-Test Interview: D-888765 was interviewed and expressed memories of SCP-XXXX-2 cooking her signature 'Lemon Meringue Pie' on rare occasion. Test subject added that as SCP-XXXX-2 got older she had to stop baking. SCP-XXXX-1 was not consumed during this interview. POI-XXXX-6 was also interviewed post SCP-XXXX event, and described shared memories with her sister of situations where SCP-XXXX-2 cooked the same recipe for them.
Post-Test Notes: Anomalous effects can be manipulated by SCP-XXXX-1, but only extend to what was actually cooked / made by SCP-XXXX-2.
Personal Notes: Anomalous properties seem to center around SCP-XXXX-2 themselves and not SCP-XXXX as previously thought. Further tests are needed to determine how this affects surrounding the reality-narrative of each test subject. - Researcher G. Davis
Test XXXX-Beta-02
Test Subject: D-298475 Hispanic Male, 41. Country of Origin: Mexico.
Grandmothers Status: Fathers Side: Deceased, 79 at time of death. (Test subject was 4 at time of death.) Mothers Side: Deceased. (Subject unfamiliar with mothers side grandmother.)
Pre-Test Interview: Subject recalls fuzzy memories of their grandmother, who passed away when they were very young. No recollection of cooking for the family.
Ingredients: Standard Recipe for Cherry Pie. (It's worth noting that with subjects history, cherries and cherry pie are very rare in the location of his youth.)
Post-Test Interview: D-298475 was interviewed and expressed incomplete, but 'warm' memories of SCP-XXXX-2 making cherry pies on their farm in the hills of [LOCATION REDACTED].
Post-Test Notes: [LOCATION REDACTED] was researched and found to contain the only cherry farm in the region, owned for two generations by the family of the test subject. This location is currently ███ away from the location of D-298475's family residence during his youth. Historical research confirms that SCP-XXXX-2 did die at the same date as pre-recorded, but under different circumstances. Agents were dispatched to [LOCATION REDACTED] and administered Class-A Amnestics as needed in order to preserve the narrative of SCP-XXXX-2.
Personal Notes: This test produced a unintended reaction. Investigation pending on wither or not SCP-XXXX prefers to follow a repeating narrative or makes alterations to reality at random. - Researcher G. Davis
Test XXXX-Gamma-01
Test Subject: D-663322 Caucasian Male, 55
Grandmothers Status: Both Deceased. (Deceased of natural causes before test subject was born.)
Pre-Test Interview: Subject recalls no memories of their grandmother.
Ingredients: Standard recipe for apple pie, with 15g of arsenic power added to the apple mix.
Post-Test Interview: Nonexistent.
Post-Test Notes: After saying the memetic agent of SCP-XXXX, subject disappeared from containment. Security was notified of containment breach, but subject was never recovered. Post test research discovered that SCP-XXXX-2 (fathers side) had been incarcerated for 10 years prior to her death for the triple homicide of her son, daughter-in-law, and D-663322. Class-F amnestics were approved by the Ethics Committee and administered to the daughter-in-laws extended family.
Personal Notes: Foundation notes and researchers assigned to this test still retain all information of D-663322 prior to test XXXX-Gamma-01. - Researcher G. Davis.
Ethics Committee has asked that future tests be pre-approved so post test damage can be kept to a minimum. - L3/Researcher J. Smith
Test XXXX-Gamma-02
Test Subject: D-1345778 Female, 22 Country of Origin: Japan.
Grandmothers Status: Fathers Side: Alive, 79 currently living in [LOCATION REDACTED] Japan. Mothers Side: Deceased before birth of test subject.
Pre-Test Interview: Test subject was not familiar with pie of the eastern sense, but did have memories of their grandmother prior to moving to the United States.
Ingredients: Rocks, shale.
Post-Test Interview: During use of memetic agent, subject began to exhibit [REDACTED] Post interview analysis also revealed past injury to [REDACTED] as well. Subject was allowed time to recover from emotional distress, and in interview recounted 2 years of abuse by SCP-XXXX-2 while her parents were away working in the United Kingdom.
Post-Test Notes: Foundation research revealed that SCP-XXXX-2 had committed suicide in [LOCATION REDACTED] following D-1345778s escape / report to police.
Personal Notes: This is the second experiment involving a 'negative' reaction / alteration and was not pre-authorized with the Ethics Committee. Any future tests will require my express approval. - L3/Researcher J. Smith
ADDITIONAL NOTES: Following Ethics Committee review researcher G. Davis was reassigned to project [REDACTED].
Test XXXX-Gamma-03
Test Subject: D-167832 Caucasian Male, 18
Grandmothers Status: Fathers side: Deceased. 67 at time of death. (Test subject was 7 at time of death.) Mothers side: Deceased. (Dead before birth of test subject.)
Pre-Test Interview: Subject has abusive memories of their grandmother. Prefers not to elaborate. No official public records of abuse.
Ingredients: [DATA EXPUNGED] mixed with 64g flour, 2 eggs (beaten), cooked at 190c for 45 minutes.
Post-Test Interview: None.
Post-Test Notes: None.
Personal Notes: Test XXXX-Gamma-03 was proposed by a unknown source in the database. The Source of test is currently being investigated by the Analytics Department. The test was never carried out, but test subject was pre-screened for the test. Ethics Committee reevaluation has deemed it adequate to indefinitely suspend all testing on SCP-XXXX. Previous research personnel have been reassigned post Test XXXX-Gamma-03. All further testing must be approved by three assigned level 4 personnel. - Site director Morgan.
[INCIDENT XXXX-DELTA-01 IS ACCESSIBLE ONLY TO LEVEL 4 RESEARCHERS OR HIGHER]
Prior to incident XXXX-DELTA-1, tests were proposed to harness positive outcomes from SCP-XXXX events. Level 1 researcher assigned to SCP-XXXX, Patrick M. Hutchenson, alerted researchers that his grandmother, Debora Hutchenson was currently employed by the foundation, having retired from her level 2 researcher position to work in Site-01's research level cafeteria. Pre-incident interviews with both individuals showed a history of successful cooking, but 'no luck with pies or baked goods;' with Researcher Hutchenson stating the following during an interview:
"…No dear, I really would have loved too, but all the time spent here hasn't given me enough time to ever practice enough. I'd be delighted, though, if I could learn to make lovely pies and pastries."
Test XXXX-DELTA-01 was submitted and approved by both the Ethics Committee and senior researcher J. Smith. The test was to be performed using a recipe for apple pie, with several proposed, and the best tasting selected. The final baking of SCP-XXXX-01 for the test was carried out by [REDACTED], a level 2 researcher. Foundation investigative teams determined, post incident, that [REDACTED] had sabotaged the test by adding some of the following: 5-3,000ml human blood type O+, a small instructional pamphlet containing [REDACTED], and a sample of [REDACTED] that was taken from containment.
Official test write-up is below.
Test XXXX-DELTA-01
Test Subject: Patrick M. Hutchenson, Level 2 researcher, 29
Grandmothers Status: Fathers Side: Deceased(Dead before birth of test subject.) Mothers Side: Alive, 79.
Pre-Test Interview: Both Patrick and SCP-XXXX-02 were interviewed at the same time. SCP-XXXX-02 is described as 'never having good luck with pies or pastries.' Both are in good spirits. SCP-XXXX-02 shows a keen interest in following through with the experiment and understands the risks.
Ingredients: 'Southern Comfort' Apple pie recipe. See addendum B1 for full ingredient listings.
Post-Test Interview: [DATA EXPUNGED]
Post-Test Notes: [DATA EXPUNGED]
Personal Notes: None.
After the memetic agent was used researcher P. Hutchenson disappeared. After reviewing incident log notes it was discovered that researcher P. Hutchenson has never been employed at the foundation. On Site security was notified, and dispatched to Site-01's research cafeteria to confront Debora Hutchenson (hereafter referred to as SCP-XXXX-4.) Uppon arrival SCP-XXXX-4 began to [DATA EXPUNGED] site security. MTF-██ were on site for a training exercise and were quickly gathered to neutralize SCP-XXXX-4, but not before the loss of ███ personnel.
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